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    Vera Nazarian
    “Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.

    Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.

    Their language has been lost.

    But not the gestures.”
    Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

  • #2
    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    John Muir

  • #3
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

  • #4
    “What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”
    Chris Maser, Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest

  • #5
    Ibrahim Nasrallah
    “بعد أيام اكتشفتُ أن الشجرَ كالبشر ، حين تُضيَّع الفرصة الأولى للقائك بهم .. حين تترك أحدهم خلفك ، قد لا تعثر علية ، ثانية ، أمامك”
    إبراهيم نصر الله, أقل من عدو أكثر من صديق: السيرة الطائرة

  • #6
    Gaston Bachelard
    “Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.”
    Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

  • #7
    Thomas Hardy
    “To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.”
    Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree



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